Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts

You can now download the PRAxTours app through Apple or Google Play on your mobile device. The PRAxTours app features self-guided tours of our center, rotating Stirek Gallery exhibitions, public art across the Oregon State University campus, and more! Download here » https://lnkd.in/gg5jMqkt

This, in my view, is Edward Feser's administrative superpower: his compass never wavers from a University's mission to support depth knowledge and disciplinary expertise -- while, at the same time, imploring us all to get together to think across disciplines and to scan the whole horizon of knowledge. "The partial action of each strong mind in one direction, is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Ed, thank you for every thing you did to help the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University carry that worldview. The extravagance of deep knowledge and the sphericity of souls - it sounds like a lot, but behind all the administrative language of strategic plans and mission statements, it's what you helped us care about OSU. Saint Louis University, here's a picture of your new President - in an appropriately extravagant hardhat - signing the final beam to be raised at PRAx. I know you will find his mark there equally indelible.

Experience a taste of Ireland from last night's show with Lúnasa! We hope you can feel the joy and passion through your screen. And if by some chance you can't, be sure to join us in the crowd next time! #prax #oregonstateprax

We are grateful to those who joined President Jayathi Murthy and Shawn L. Scoville for a curator's reception at the OSU President’s Residence in Corvallis on March 11. Our speaker, Anna Fidler, a senior instructor of art at the university, and curator of the exhibition, “This is the Land the Sunset Washes,” shared insights on the artwork, which celebrates Oregon’s natural beauty. It was a special treat to have many of the artists and faculty members from the School of the Arts in attendance, in addition to our generous donors. Featured works included:   - David Paul Bayles' photographs   - Leah Wilson's gouache paintings of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest   - Nick Blosser’s watercolors   - Stephen Hayes’ oil paintings of secret meadows   - Chris Russell’s oil paintings of found bouquets   and digital images of works by Michael Boonstra and John Whitten, both senior instructors of art Thank you to Philip J Williams, Dean, College of Liberal Arts; Peter Betjemann, Patricia Valian Reser Executive Director, PRAx, and Associate Vice Provost of Arts and Humanities; and Peter Swendsen, Patricia Valian Reser Chair and Director, School of the Arts, for joining us for the event.  #STEAM #GoBeavs #BelieveIt Oregon State University - College of Liberal Arts Grady Goodall, J.D. Jennifer Milburn Amy Ellis, MPA  DAVID PAUL BAYLES PHOTOGRAPHY College of Engineering – Oregon State University

Fall in love this Valentine's Day with an intimate, music-and-drinks jazz concert featuring Cuban musician, Alex Cuba, on Friday, February 14, at 7 and 9 p.m. in Ray Theater. Get Tickets » http://beav.es/Gbp

The Otherwise! On view now in the Stirek Gallery from January 17-March 29, 2025. This exhibition is a re-envisioning of our collective cultural archives and the histories they omit. Artists LaJuné McMillian and Rodell Warner engage various platforms for machine learning to undertake corrective and imaginative research about Black community and its impact on current cultural consciousness. Learn more » beav.es/G6T Teiger Foundation | Ashley Stull Meyers | Peter Betjemann | Oregon State University | Photos by: Blake Brown

In 2024, Ann Hamilton and her team created LIFE with LIFE, an art installation for the courtyard of the newly renovated Cordley Hall at Oregon State University. The hall is home to both the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and the Department of Integrative Biology. The State of Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places was founded in 1975. Administered by Oregon Arts Commission, the program guides the acquisition of artwork for the state's collection of art in public places, which includes more than 2,600 works of art. Peter Betjemann | Libby Ramirez | Ryan Burghard

Full house at last night's Spring Creek Project event, Deep Time: Writing and Art from an Ancient Forest! 🙌 For more than 20 years, the Spring Creek Project has been inviting creative responses to the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest through the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program. This program brings imaginative thinkers in the humanities and the written and visual arts to this ancient forest of the Blue River watershed in Oregon, where scientists have been engaged for decades in long-term study. The Reflections project is intended to span 200 years — approximately seven generations of human lives, but only a quarter of the lifetime of the oldest red cedars in the forest. It was founded on the belief that truths reveal themselves over time and cannot be fully grasped in short corporate timespans. So we should study a place for generations — patient in drawing conclusions, humble in the presence of deep time, and open to surprise. Long-term thinking is a radical act, a corrective to the dangerous impatience of modernity. Nevertheless, we live in a time of ecological crisis where the urgent need for new ways of thinking and being sits in tension with the wisdom that evolves over generations. Thank you to those who came out last night to help us celebrate creative projects from the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program that are making us think in new ways about forests, our relationship to place, and the importance of long-term inquiry. We are truly grateful for your continued support! Peter Betjemann | Carly Lettero | Shelley Stonebrook | Riley Yuan | Nancy Floyd | Tom Montgomery Fate | Claire Giordano

On January 9, PRAx welcomes Katherine "KP" Paul to Detrick Concert Hall for the next American Strings with ethnomusicologist Kelly Bosworth, PhD. KP is a Swinomish/Iñupiaq singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in the Skagit River Valley, best known as the lead artist behind the critically acclaimed project Black Belt Eagle Scout. Reserve your seat » beav.es/Gsh

Just announced: PRAx and the Corvallis Folklore Society present Lúnasa, one of the most influential bands in the history of Irish traditional music on Wednesday, March 26 at 7 p.m. in Detrick Hall. Tickets » beav.es/GdJ